A great idea for guys to remember!
On Valentines day, a group of guys who are friends and live down the street from my home, hosted myself and my roommates at their home for a dinner party on the night of Valentines. It was such a great idea! It kept myself from being at home that night watching sappy movies on TV or doing homework.
While waiting for dinner to cook, we played Connect Four and reconnected with childhood. After dinner, we played an intense and frightening game of Scategories. If you have friends who are extremely opinionated or do not like to lose, do not play this game. We learned this lesson the hard way after six rounds of gameplay.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
A Weekend of Entertaining
This past weekend was quite the busy one at my house on East Campus. One of my roommates and I spent a week over Christmas break on a mission trip to Harmons, Jamaica. This weekend we hosted two reunion get-togethers for the members of our team.
Friday night was a pot luck dinner for all the girls. Kathleen (my roommate) picked up two frozen lasagnas from the grocery store to cook, and everyone else brought sides, deserts, etc. The frozen lasagnas were a GREAT idea, but we learned two important things from them. 1. Know how much a "party sized" lasagna feeds. We made two and I'm pretty sure we'll be eating left over lasagna for weeks. 2. Know how long its going to take to cook your lasagna and plan accordingly. We thought we'd just head to the store a few hours before, pick them up and cook them. Thankfully we shopped about three hours before the party, because it took two hours to cook them! Our guests ended up waiting about half an hour once they arrived before the food was done, but this gave us a great time to catch up and hang out before eating.
We had a good turnout as far as other foods that were brought as well. We had e-mailed the guests a week before and asked us to let us know what they were bringing. The day of the party I e-mailed out a few last minute necessities that no one had volunteered to bring and within an hour, they were covered too.
Saturday night we had a picture party at our home for our Jamaica team members as well. This party was a chance for us all to hang out together, but also to bring any pictures you had taken of other people you thought they might want and give them to them. It was such a fun night. There was a lot of laughter going on and revisiting stories from our week in Harmons. We just had everyone bring $5 and we ordered a bunch of pizzas. Definitely an easier night food wise, but still a lot of fun.
Friday night was a pot luck dinner for all the girls. Kathleen (my roommate) picked up two frozen lasagnas from the grocery store to cook, and everyone else brought sides, deserts, etc. The frozen lasagnas were a GREAT idea, but we learned two important things from them. 1. Know how much a "party sized" lasagna feeds. We made two and I'm pretty sure we'll be eating left over lasagna for weeks. 2. Know how long its going to take to cook your lasagna and plan accordingly. We thought we'd just head to the store a few hours before, pick them up and cook them. Thankfully we shopped about three hours before the party, because it took two hours to cook them! Our guests ended up waiting about half an hour once they arrived before the food was done, but this gave us a great time to catch up and hang out before eating.
We had a good turnout as far as other foods that were brought as well. We had e-mailed the guests a week before and asked us to let us know what they were bringing. The day of the party I e-mailed out a few last minute necessities that no one had volunteered to bring and within an hour, they were covered too.
Saturday night we had a picture party at our home for our Jamaica team members as well. This party was a chance for us all to hang out together, but also to bring any pictures you had taken of other people you thought they might want and give them to them. It was such a fun night. There was a lot of laughter going on and revisiting stories from our week in Harmons. We just had everyone bring $5 and we ordered a bunch of pizzas. Definitely an easier night food wise, but still a lot of fun.
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